John Erik Metcalf

Last edit - July 1

Some of these folks I’ve met and some I have not… now to have meetings with them regarding the development of Austin’s startup community, the Conjunctured coworking space, the plan for a Startup District, etc.

Entrepreneurs/invest

• Brett Hurt from Bazaarvoice
• bad asses Roy and Bertrand Sosa - http://www.mpowerlabs.com
• Gary Farmer, President of Heritage Title Company of Austin, was named “Austinite of the Year”
• Jeffrey Dachis - you should know who this guy is. but he’s new to austin as i understand it
• Eugene Sepulveda - http://www.givetoaustin.org/about/staff.html
• everyone at http://actonmba.com - i freekin love what they are doing, specifically Steven Tomlinson & Jeff Sandefer
• Hank Weghorst of formerly of Troux, per this article where he says he wants to have a microfund in austin
• Mike Maples, jr. –
• Harvey Ring
• Andrew Busey - Pluck, Challenge Games
• Joshua Baer - http://www.austinpreneur.com/
• FiveRuns - Todd Barr for sure, Olivier Thierry would be awesome
• Hall Martin - pretty sure he get’s it; and cares about austin | Jamie Rhodes
• Austin Ventures - Gerald Zhou for sure / Tom Ball
• Rudy Garza of G-51 - mediatruck?
• John Hime - austin angel, met at demo party, want to talk with more
• Bryan Menell - http://www.austinstartup.com/ http://www.fusionlearningsystems.com/
• Bryan Jones - http://moximity.com/
  

Gov types

• Dawanna dukes - starte rep for the district that covers east austin
• Sheral cole - councel. east side revitalization process
• Lee Leffingwell, Council Member Place 1
• Mayor Will Wynn - Done
• Rosalinda Jalifi - economic growth and redevelopment services, small business development program
• Brewster McCracken - http://www.brewstermccracken.org/
• Eve Richter - Economic Development

Edu/othr

• William Powers - President of UT http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/profile.php?id=wpowers
• tim hayden - http://gpexperience.com/
• Joel Surface - Director, Clean Energy Incubator
• Randi bakes from austech
• Alisha Ring, http://www.austintechnologycouncil.org
• John Sibely Butler - http://www.ic2.org/main.php?a=5&s=46
• Sam Decker - http://decker.typepad.com/ thanks for finding me Sam
  
• John Lebkowsky - http://weblogsky.com
• William Hurley - http://whurley.com
• People at the Austin Technology Council - gotten to know Soozie
• Lori Hawkins - statesman
• bobby ray inman - former head of NSA, angel investor in Dell and Cisco, 1st president of Sematech, founder of Gefinor Ventures
• Dr. Cunningham, both of em
• Pike Powers
• All UT entrepreneurship clubs

more to come! i’m past my bed time to get 6hrs… more politicos, angels, law, realestate … need to look at old business cards